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  • Salim sez, William Poole, an 18-year-old Kentucky high-school student wrote a story about a high-school over-ran by a plague of zombies.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • No time to post tonight: I went straight from work to an "Arts Evening" at Jenny's school which over-ran by an hour.

    Family Maxine 2008

  • The Chinese inevitably over-ran some positions, but there was no retreat.

    Archive 2009-04-01 membrain 2009

  • The Chinese inevitably over-ran some positions, but there was no retreat.

    Anniversary of the Battle of Kapyong membrain 2009

  • While it's a much longer (and very interesting) story, suffice it to say: When there were no wolves, elk completely over-ran the place and the entire ecosystem suffered, terribly -- plants, animals, water, soil, the whole place.

    Paula Gordon: Wanton Predator? 2009

  • Fabulous guitar-playing, singing and brilliant dancers, and because they all get carried away and did lots of encores they over-ran by about 40 minutes so I was fairly late home and am now knackered.

    Wednesday lunchtime... Imogen 2008

  • The other MkII platoon quickly over-ran the objective before the Russian tanks could intervene.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Cromwell MkI 2008

  • The other MkII platoon quickly over-ran the objective before the Russian tanks could intervene.

    Camp Cromwell 22/04/08 Cromwell MkI 2008

  • I stated that NO western country has the right to dis China, with a comparison of how western country's themselves over-ran foreign lands and subjugated its residents while incorporating them into their present form.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Heck of a job, Commie 2008

  • The first attack occurred east of Baquba, where militants over-ran an Iraqi army position, killing three soldiers and wounding another three.

    Ilan Goldenberg: NSN Iraq Daily Update 11/26/07 2008

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